Friday, January 27, 2012

It was a play about writers and writing: Four aspiring writers pay an exorbitant amount of money to meet for 10 weeks and take a writing seminar with a highly regarded editor/former writer played by Alan Rickman. I mean you can't get any better than that, really.

The four young writers got more than they payed for - Rickman's character ruthlessly tells them the truth - about themselves and their writing. I especially liked how characteristics of the aspiring writers (elements of their personality that Leonard cut them down about) actually mirrored some of his own personal failings: the name dropping/self aggrandizing stance on writing; the fear of letting go of the past; the rampant sexuality; the truly talented writer that keeps his work hidden out of fear. I have to admit, the writer in me also keyed into the writers' habits of overwriting a particular piece/not letting anyone seeing a particular work. Bad habits that I seem to fall into every now and again myself.

I am just tickled that I was finally able to see Rickman live on stage.

I've been a fan of Alan Rickman's since his portrayal of Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility

Thursday, January 19, 2012

I know I haven't blogged that much lately - to be honest I have been swamped with crafting projects for other people and was hit one after the other with requests. I still haven't posted all of them. I'll try to do that bit by bit as I have time.

My hope this year is to really try to find more time for myself and my own personal creative pursuits. I have found, that as many mothers before me, I've easily fallen into the "all baby all the time" routine. And then, where is the time for me, right?

I look at my own personal art journal, my guitar, my sheet music/vocal warm up tapes gathering dust and it does make me a bit sad. So this year I'm going to try my hardest to really get some "me time."

To start off everything I've re-vamped the blog a bit. A nice new look to start off a nice new year.